We have studied experimentally particle suspension when injecting a gas at the bottom of an immersed granular layer, in confined geometry (Hele-Shaw cell). In a vertical setup, the system always reaches a stationary state resulting from the competition between grains entrainment by bubble rise, and sedimentation. A phenomenological model makes it possible to explain the properties of the suspension thus formed, and of the granular bed not affected by the gas rise. The influence of the effective gravity in the system is then considered. When a stationary state is reached, the size of the granular bed displays a maximum for a cell inclination angle of about 30-40 degrees. This observation can be explained by referring to a peculiar sedimentat...